HC Deb 07 February 1957 vol 564 c600
39. Mr. H. Wilson

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer the total value of the sales of raw materials and other goods out of Government strategic stocks during 1955 and 1956, respectively.

Mr. Powell

Receipts by the Board of Trade from net sales of raw material stocks were about £1 million in 1955–56 and about £25 million in the first nine months of the current financial year.

The corresponding figures for the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food are some £6½ million in the last nine months. There were no net sales in 1955–56.

Sir C. Taylor

On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. May I ask your guidance about Question No. 36? [HON. MEMBERS: "It has been answered."] I understand that it was answered in conjunction with Question No. 20, which referred only to Canadian dollars and not to United States dollars. Would it not be right for an answer to be given to the American part of the Question as well as to the Canadian part?

Mr. Speaker

I could not allow that now. Had the hon. Member been here, he could have asked a supplementary question.